Tag: mercy
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Grace for the Everyday Sinner in 2024 C.E.
What is grace? We associate it with good things as in praying before eating and receiving mercy for those things we ought not to have done. Paul frequently opens his letters to various churches with grace, peace and other gentle words of greeting. The Apostle then encourages believers in a spirit of grace given to…
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CRUCIFY! CRUCIFY iēsous Crucify ben ‘elyown ‘elyown
Crowds incited against all righteousness Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him; for I find no grounds for charges in His case!” John 19:6b NASB Justice of the Crowds Though the politician in charge who happens to be Governor and Judge finds no case against Jesus Christ and mockingly charges those politicized…
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Our Lament and Weeping -2- Judgment
Previously, we asked of Jeremiah’s lament for Jerusalem, “For what hope have any who have turned against the Lord?” He has just said, “For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart. – Lamentations 1:22b And now his elegy will address a just judgment on Jerusalem by the Lord. Judgment on Jerusalem Lamentations…
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Interrupting Jesus 7 – a lowly woman
Luke 7: 36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. Nice. One of the leading men of your church asks you to dinner. Jesus did just what we would do: He accepted. 37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was…
